On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Grant Stockly wrote:

> >On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Steven Kasow wrote:
> >
> >>    While I was looking around, I stumbled across a mention of
> >> "OpenFirmware disks (ofdisk)". And since my G3 happily boots
> >> from the internal SCSI disk, I presume that OF knows how to talk to
> >> the card. Can I simply tweak the config file for a kernel and
> >> magically use my drives through OF?
> >
> >Nope. You could boot a kernel off of it, but that kernel wouldn't know how
> >to access the drive. We don't use the OF drivers once we've booted. :-(
> 
> Can't we compile the kernel for atapi-disk support?  On NetBSD i386 the ATA
> driver attaches zip drives and other disks to sdX where X is the number of
> the drive.

I thought you were talking about the SCSI disk. _That_ disk we don't
support.

The GENERIC kernel config supports pciide controllers, and wd drives on
them.

But we're still faced with the problem that we don't know how to make the
new machines boot NetBSD off of disk. :-( The installboot method doesn't
work anymore.

Take care,

Bill